Robert Cochrane BuistLecturer in Midwifery and Gynaecology

Robert Cochrane Buist was born in Dundee and studied at the universities of
St. Andrews, Cambridge and Edinburgh, at each of which he had a distinguished academic career.
After serving as assistant physician at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Dr Buist was appointed
lecturer in Clinical Midwifery and Gynaecology at University College, Dundee, in 1901, a post
he held until his retirement in 1925. He was secretary of the Dundee Branch of the British
Medical Association from 1894.